New Today -- 21 March 2016

Perspective

Trump and the Democratic Party

The Democrats will run in the fall campaign as the party of the status quo, complacency and self-satisfaction, essentially conceding the economically discontented to Donald Trump.

News & Analysis

New study says entire regions of US will remain in slump until the 2020s

The figures on persistently high unemployment in large sections of the country coincide with new layoffs in the oil, coal, steel and other manufacturing industries in the US.

US Steel layoffs hit another 770 workers

Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam arrested in Brussels

French Socialist Party whips up law-and-order hysteria after Abdeslam arrest

Sri Lankan parliament to draft new constitution to shore up capitalist rule

Castro government welcomes Obama, US corporate heads to Cuba

More attacks on anti-Trump protesters at Tucson, Arizona campaign rally

Chief proponent of Flint water supply switch hosts public meeting

UAW seeks to ram through contract at Volvo

Berlin senate speeds up deportations of refugees

Spanish youth protest education reforms

Australian nickel refinery workers sacked without entitlements

Australian youth and workers denounce media and government racist hysteria

Arts Review

Ten years since the death of hip hop artist James "J Dilla" Yancey